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Notable deaths of 2013

Otis 'Damon' Harris, a former member of the Motown group The Temptations, has died of prostate cancer. He was 62.

Otis "Damon" Harris, a former member of the Motown group The Temptations, has died of prostate cancer. He was 62.

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  • This 1955 photo provided by Walt Disney Co., shows Annette Funicello, a 'Mouseketeer' on Walt Disney's TV series the 'Mickey Mouse Club.' Walt Disney Co. says, Monday, April 8, 2013, that Funicello, also known for her beach movies with Frankie Avalon, has died at age 70. (AP Photo/Walt Disney Co., File)
  • In this Sept. 14, 1977, photo, British Conservative Party Leader Margaret Thatcher listens to a reporters question during a press conference at the British Embassy in Washington. Ex-spokesman Tim Bell says that Thatcher has died. She was 87. Bell said the woman known to friends and foes as 'the Iron Lady' passed away Monday morning, April 8, 2013. (AP Photo/File)
  • This May 17, 2004, photo shows Pulitzer Prize winning film critc Roger Ebert at the 57th International Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that its film critic Roger Ebert died Thursday, April 4, 2013. He was 70. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, file)
  • Pauline Friedman Phillips, better known as advice columnist Dear Abby, is shown at the wedding of Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger, April 26, 1986 in Hyannis, Mass. Phillips, who had Alzheimer's disease, died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, she was 94.
  • This undated file image shows comedian and actor Jonathan Winters, whose breakneck improvisations inspired Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and many others. Winters died Thursday, April 11, 2013, at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes. He was 87. (AP Photo, file)
  • In this June 5, 2008 file photo, country music artist Mindy McCready performs at the CMA Music Festival in Nashville, Tenn. McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, died Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. She was 37. (AP Photo/Bill Waugh, File)
  • Bob Turley was a hard-throwing right-hander who called Marco Island his winter home. Turley's best season was 1958, when he won 21 games and lost seven for the Yankees. As a result, he won the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year (over candidates such as Wilt Chamerlain and Arnold Palmer), the Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in Major League Baseball, and the World Series Most Valuable Player Award. Turley picked up the nickname 'Bullet Bob' in Baltimore, but not because he threw harder than anybody else. Look magazine wanted to time his fastball for a story. They borrowed a bullet timer from Aberdeen Proving Grounds and set it on home plate. Turley fired his fastball through the bullet timer at just over 98. By today's standards, with radar guns aimed at the pitcher's release point, that would be 103. A fastball loses about five mph by the time it reaches the plate.
  • In this Oct. 27, 2006, photo, Hall of Famer Stan Musial gets ready to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 5 of the World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Detroit Tigers in St. Louis. Musial, one of baseball's greatest hitters and a Hall of Famer with the Cardinals for more than two decades, died Saturday, Jan 19, 2013, the team announced. He was 92.(AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
  • Bonnie Franklin of the 1970's sitcom 'One Day at a Time' appears on the the NBC 'Today' television program in New York on Feb. 26, 2008. Franklin died Friday, March 1, 2013, at her home due to complications from pancreatic cancer, family members said. She was 69. Her family had announced she was diagnosed with cancer in September (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
  • In this May 22, 2011, photo, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez greets supporters next to his daughter Maria and grandson Jorge after his radio and television program 'Hello President!,' his first public appearance after injuring himself while jogging two weeks earlier, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 that Chavez has died. Chavez, 58, was first diagnosed with cancer in June 2011. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
  • This 1942 photo shows singer Patty Andrews, the last survivor of the three singing Andrews sisters, who has died in Los Angeles at age 94. Andrews died Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, at her home in suburban Northridge of natural causes, said family spokesman Alan Eichler. (AP Photo, File)
  • Jeanne Cooper poses with her award for outstanding lead actress in a drama series for her work on “The Young and the Restless' at the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on June 8, 2008, in Los Angeles. CBS says soap opera star Cooper has died. She was 84. Cooper played grande dame Katherine Chancellor on CBS' 'The Young and the Restless' for nearly four decades. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)
  • FILE - This Sept. 13, 1981 file photo shows stars of the television show 'Different Strokes,' clockwise from foreground, Gary Coleman, Conrad Bain and Todd Bridges at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. Bain, who starred as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom 'Diff'rent Strokes,' died of natural causes, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, at his home in Livermore, Calif. He was 89. (AP Photo, file)
  • In this Jan. 30, 2009, photo, Internet activist Aaron Swartz poses for a photo in Miami Beach. Swartz was found dead Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, in his Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment, according to Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for New York's medical examiner. Swartz, 26, was scheduled to face trial on hacking charges in a few weeks. (AP Photo/The New York Times, Michael Francis McElroy)
  • FILE - This 1958 file photo shows singer Patti Page. Page, who made 'Tennessee Waltz' the third best-selling recording ever, has died. She was 85. Page died on New Year's Day in Encinitas, Calif., according to her manager. (AP Photo, file)
  • In an April 16, 1979, photo, The Philadelphia Inquirer's Richard Ben Cramer celebrates with colleagues in the Inquirer city room after winning the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in the Middle East. Cramer, whose narrative non-fiction spanned presidential politics and the game of baseball, died Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from complications of lung cancer, says his agent, Philippa Brophy. He was 62. (AP Photo/File)
  • In this 1982 image provided by Counterpoint Press, author Evan S. Connell poses for a photo in Santa Fe, N.M. The acclaimed author, whose literary explorations ranged from Depression-era Kansas City in the twin novels 'Mrs. Bridge' and 'Mr. Bridge' to Custer's last stand, 'Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn,' was found dead Thursday Jan. 10, 2013, in his Santa Fe apartment, his niece said. He was 88. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Counterpoint Press)
  • Robert Chew, who played Proposition Joe on the HBO series 'The Wire,' has died. He was 52.
  • In this Sept. 6, 2012, photo, former Baltimore Orioles baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr., right, greets former manager Earl Weaver, left, during a pregame ceremony before a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Orioles in Baltimore. Weaver, the fiery Hall of Fame manager who won 1,480 games with the Baltimore Orioles, has died, the team announced Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. He was 82. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)
  • In this July 20, 1992, photo, Olympic baseball coach Ron Fraser, the former coach at the University of Miami, attends team workouts in Tampa, Fla. Fraser, the longtime Miami baseball coach who won two national championships with the Hurricanes and whose innovative marketing ideas helped spark a surge in the college game's popularity, has died. Family spokesman Tony Segreto said Fraser died Sunday morning, Jan. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove)
  • In this Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010, photo, British director and producer, Michael Winner, signs copies of his autobiography, Unbelievable!, at a central London venue. Film director and restaurant critic Michael Winner has died, his wife Geraldine announced Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. He was 77. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short, File)
  • In this April 18, 2007, photo, former New York Mayor Ed Koch listens during the 9th annual National Action Network convention in New York. Koch, the combative politician who rescued the city from near-financial ruin during three City Hall terms, has died at age 88. Spokesman George Arzt says Koch died Friday morning Feb. 1, 2013 of congestive heart failure. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
  • In this June 15, 1987, photo, Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss gets doused with champagne from members of his team as he holds the NBA Championship trophy after the Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics 106-93 to win the NBA Championship four games to two in Inglewood, Calif. Buss, the Lakers' playboy owner who shepherded the NBA franchise to 10 championships, has died. He was 79. Bob Steiner, an assistant to Buss, confirmed Monday, Feb. 18, 2013 that Buss had died in Los Angeles. Further details were not available. (AP Photo/Lennox Mclendon, File)
  • This March 15, 1999, photo shows the sibling group The Staples Singers, from left, Pervis, Cleotha, Pops, Mavis, and Yvonne at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York. Cleotha Staples, the eldest sibling in the highly influential gospel group The Staples Singers died Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at her Chicago home after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for the last decade. She was 78. (AP Photo/Albert Ferreira, file)
  • Former Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dan Toler has died following a two-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, otherwise known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 65.
  • This July 12, 2003, photo shows pianist Van Cliburn after performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as the Orchestra plays 'Happy Birthday,' on his 69th birthday at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. Cliburn, the internationally celebrated pianist whose triumph at a 1958 Moscow competition helped thaw the Cold War and launched a spectacular career that made him the rare classical musician to enjoy rock star status died early Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, at his Fort Worth home following a battle with bone cancer. He was 78. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, file)
  • Otis 'Damon' Harris, a former member of the Motown group The Temptations, has died of prostate cancer. He was 62.
  • In this Feb. 12, 2002, photo, former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Koop testifies in Concord, N.H. Koop, who raised the profile of the surgeon general by riveting America's attention on the then-emerging disease known as AIDS and by railing against smoking, has died in New Hampshire at age 96. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
  • In this Dec. 1, 2011, photo, Maj. Thomas Griffin poses for a photo inside his home in Cincinnati, next to a Time Magazine cover of Lt. Col. James Doolittle and a painting of one of the B-25B Mitchell bombers used in Doolittle's raid on Japan in 1942. Griffin, a navigator on one of the planes used in the raid, died Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 in a VA nursing home at the age of 96. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)
  • Bobby Rogers, a founding member of Motown group The Miracles and a songwriting collaborator with Smokey Robinson, died Sunday at his suburban Detroit home. He was 73.
  • In this Oct. 6, 2008 photo, Arts Advocacy Award honoree Phil Ramone attends the 2008 National Arts Awards presented by Americans For The Arts at Cipriani's 42nd St. in New York. Ramone, the Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer whose platinum touch included recordings with Ray Charles, Billy Joel and Paul Simon, has died. He was 72. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
  • In this Saturday Sept. 21, 2002, photo, Lilly Pulitzer reacts to cheers after the showing of her spring 2003 fashions in New York, 2002. Pulitzer, known for her tropical print dresses, died in Florida at 81 on Sunday, April, 7, 2013. ( (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
  • In this April 19, 1994, photo, Pat Summerall, completing his 34th and final season with CBS, receives an award for lifetime achievement at the 1994 Sports Emmy Awards in New York. Fox Sports spokesman Dan Bell said Tuesday, April 16, 2013, that Summerall, the NFL player-turned-broadcaster whose deep, resonant voice called games for more than 40 years, died at the age of 82. (AP Photo/Rob Clark, File)
  • In this May 1, 2008, photo, Richie Havens plays at the opening night ceremony during the 61st International film festival in Cannes, southern France. Havens, who sang and strummed for a sea of people at Woodstock, has died at 72. His family says in a statement that Havens died Monday, April 22, 2013, of a heart attack. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, file)
  • Allan Arbus, a film, stage and television actor best known for his recurring role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on the the hit television series “M*A*S*H,” died Friday, April 19, 2013, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 95.
  • FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2007 file photo, George Jones is shown in Nashville, Tenn. Jones, the peerless, hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic 'He Stopped Loving Her Today,' has died. He was 81. Jones died Friday, April 26, 2013 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville after being hospitalized with fever and irregular blood pressure, according to his publicist Kirt Webster. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, file)
  • In this Feb. 23, 2013, photo, Chris Kelly of Kris Kross performs on stage at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta during the So So Def 20th Anniversary Concert. Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross who made one of the decade's most memorable songs with the frenetic 'Jump,' died Wednesday, May 1, 2013, according to authorities. He was 34. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jonathan Phillips)
  • Jeanne Cooper poses with her award for outstanding lead actress in a drama series for her work on “The Young and the Restless' at the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on June 8, 2008, in Los Angeles. CBS says soap opera star Cooper has died. She was 84. Cooper played grande dame Katherine Chancellor on CBS' 'The Young and the Restless' for nearly four decades. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)
  • Dr. Joyce Brothers, seen in this 2002 file photo, died Monday, May 13, 2013, of respiratory failure after a long illness. She was 85. (Jennifer Graylock, AP)
  • File-This June 20, 1964 file photo shows golfer Ken Venturi getting a kiss from his wife Conni as he accepts the title holder's silver cup of the U.S. Open golf tournament, after a searing final round on the Congressional Country Club course at Bethesda, Md. The former U.S. Open champion has died just 12 days after he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. He was 82. His son, Matt Venturi, says he died Friday May 17, 2013 in a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Venturi had been hospitalized the last two months for a spinal infection, pneumonia and an intestinal infection. (AP Photo/File)
  • This undated image released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt shows children's author Bernard Waber in New York. Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said in a statement Monday, May 20, 2013, that Waber died May 16 at his Long Island home after a long illness. He was 91. Waber debuted as an author in 1962 with 'The House on East 88th Street.' The book introduced readers to the loveable Lyle, first spotted in a bathtub in an Upper East Side brownstone. Lyle's story continued in 'Lyle Finds His Mother,' 'Lyle and the Birthday Party.' (AP Photo/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  • In this Aug. 16, 2012, photo, Ray Manzarek of The Doors performs at the Sunset Strip Music Festival launch party celebrating The Doors at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, Calif. Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died at 74. Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says in a news release that Manzarek died Monday, May 20, 2013, at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
  • Marshall Lytle, shown in 2001, began playing in a Comets reunion band in 1987 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Lytle died at home May 25, 2013. (Steve Nesius / Associated Press)
  • This 1992 file photo shows Rev. Andrew Greeley, an outspoken Roman Catholic priest, prolific best-selling novelist and Chicago newspaper columnist whose career spanned five decades. His longtime publicist said that Greeley died Wednesday, May 29, 2013, at his home in Chicago. He was 85. (AP Photo/File)
  • Jack Vance, an award-winning mystery, fantasy and science fiction author who wrote more than 60 books, has died. He was 96.
  • 'All in the Family' co-stars, from left, Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton and Sally Struthers after they each won awards at the 1972 Emmys. Stapleton died Saturday, June 1, 2013, in New York at age 90. (AP / file)
  • FILE - In a May 3, 2012, file photo Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., speaks about student loans on the Rutgers-Camden campus in Camden, N.J. Lautenberg, a multimillionaire New Jersey businessman and liberal who was called out of retirement for a second tour of duty in Congress, died Monday, June 3, 2013, at age 89. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
  • This 1963 file photo shows David Deacon Jones. Jones, a Hall of Fame American football defensive end credited with terming the word sack for how he knocked down quarterbacks, has died. He was 74. The Washington Redskins said that Jones died Monday night June 3, 2013 of natural causes at his home in Southern California. Redskins general manager Bruce Allen, whose father, George, coached Jones with the Los Angeles Rams, calls Jones 'one of the greatest players in NFL history. (AP Photo/File)
  • Esther Williams on location for the film 'Pagan Love Song' in May 1950. According to a press representative, Williams died in her sleep on Thursday, June 6, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was 91.
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